REG-Invesco Global Equity Income Trust Plc: Result of General Meeting

Invesco Global Equity Income TrustAnnouncement

14/08/2025 12:30

Legal Entity Identifier: 549300JZQ39WJPD7U596

Invesco Global Equity Income Trust plc (the "Company")

Result of General Meeting

The Company is pleased to announce that, at the General Meeting of the Company
held at 11.00 a.m. today, the special resolutions set out in the Notice of
General Meeting dated 29 July 2025 (the "Notice") were duly passed. The
General Meeting was held in order to allow the Company to continue to meet
market demand to issue ordinary shares, representing up to 20 per cent of its
issued share capital (excluding treasury shares), without rights of
pre-emption. The background to, and reasons for, the proposals are set out in
full in the Company's circular to shareholders dated  29 July 2025 (the
"Circular"). Terms used and not defined in this announcement shall have the
meanings given to them in the Circular.

The full text of the resolutions is contained in the Notice, which can be
found on the Company's website
at  www.invesco.com/uk/en/investment-trusts/invesco-global-equity-income-trust.html

Voting on the resolutions was taken on a poll. The poll votes received were as
follows:

 Special Resolution                                                                                                                                                                  In Favour/Discretionary        Against                      Votes withheld  
                                                                                                                                                                                     Number of votes  Percentage    Number of votes  Percentage  
 To authorise the Directors to allot securities disapplying statutory pre-emption rights up to an aggregate nominal value of £66,284 (being 6,628,400 ordinary shares).              12,053,847       99.23         93,634           0.77        59,347          
 To authorise the Directors to allot additional securities disapplying statutory pre-emption rights up to an aggregate nominal value of £66,284 (being 6,628,400 ordinary shares).   12,021,402       99.01         120,513          0.99        64,913          

 

Votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been counted in the
calculation of the votes for and against the resolution, the total votes
validly cast or the calculation of the proportion of issued share capital
voted. 

At the time of the above meeting, the Company's issued share capital consisted
of 79,986,586  ordinary shares of £0.01 nominal value each, carrying one
vote each. The Company holds 13,127,404 shares in treasury. Therefore, the
total number of voting rights in the Company was 66,859,182.

A copy of the resolution passed will be submitted to the National Storage
Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: 

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

For further information, please contact:

James Poole

For and on behalf of Invesco Asset Management Limited

Corporate Secretary to Invesco Global Equity Income Trust plc

Telephone: 020 3753 1000

Will Ellis

Head of Specialist Funds - Invesco

Telephone: 020 3753 1000

Robert Peel

Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (corporate broker)

Telephone:  020 7220 0500 

 

 

 

 

 



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